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No exams?

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  • 10-10-2007 6:38pm
    #1
    none1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    whats the deal with the english dept doing away wih exams?
    its only marks for essays and contribution now

    is this good/bad/better or weird?


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    #2
    pretty*monster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭pretty*monster


    It's probably a good thing.
    English Literature is all about textual analysis. Sitting an exam without the texts in front of you was always a bit... not quite pointless (there is something to be said for rote learning even if it's deeply unfashionable these days) but perhaps somewhat beside the point.

    The actual ins and outs of the new assessment procedures are another matter entirely but hey, teething problems perhaps.


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    Dave!
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    One of my history modules (middle east) has no final exam :) Sweet!


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    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    DaveMcG wrote:
    One of my history modules (middle east) has no final exam :) Sweet!

    What way is it going to be asessed? I know its document analysis but is it just analyse the King Crane Doc and Jabotinsky or whats the craic?


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    Dave!
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    Two essays altogether AFAIK... He gave us the titles for the first one, dunno bout the second.


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    stolenwine
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    Count your lucky stars I only had 4 exams out of 10 last year this year I have 9.


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    Stepherunie
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    Yeah I've down on exams this year. My thesis takes 10 credits. Then a few lecturers have gone for essays or two OCSEs rather than a proper written exam. Cue me being stressed out for longer periods of time.

    How I hate transitional modularisation......


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    rain on
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    That sounds pretty cool OP, I always thought exams were a crap way to examine a subject like English. They were crap for me anyway, I always did far better in essays and my masters thesis, flat out refused to do an English masters that had exams. (Doing an MBS now and up to my nips in exams, but that's another story.) You've a much better chance of coming up with a decent and/or original argument if you've a couple of weeks to think it over rather than a poxy hour or two. Maths and suchlike are way easier to do exams in I think.


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    #9
    sitstill
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    Essays are a much better way of examining English. I have just finished an MA in English in UCD which had 5 essays, 1 exam and a thesis. But when I was doing my BA we had 4 or 5 exams and it wasn't semesterised, so they were all in April/May - it was terrible, so I'm very jealous of you!!


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